Luke wrote:But moving on...I don't see any of this new news as mud slinging; Mitt brought this on himself. He's also been very, very snippy with journalists lately. He doesn't want to answer questions, only talk about what he wants to talk about.
That's exactly what it is and it always happens in the run-up to elections, on both sides. One of the video snippets I saw of Romney getting "snippy" with a reporter, she was asking about legalizing marijauna. Seriously, not a headline issue, talk about the economy or something someone cares about.
What constitutes a headline issue though? It seems to me as though the President has to deal with a LOT of issues at once. Brushing everything else off as if "jobs" or "the economy" is the only thing that has to be dealt with has always seemed silly to me. It's as if they've only done their "research" on one topic, and don't have any opinions on the other thousands of issues we're having in our society. "Headline" issue is a very good word for it. It's the issue that the media bashes constantly into everyones heads to sell more ads. Meanwhile, we've got all these other problems that we're going to have to deal with eventually and politicians just ignore them because they realize their positions suck and won't get them votes.
scarper wrote:I was born in NC and will always consider it home. But this is fucked up. My home has in a way turned on me, and said that I am no longer a person.
On the bright side you live in Shelbyville now. At last that's what we call it on this side of the river.
Hipster Town has a better arcade.
Are you talking about uptowns rusty quarters or an arcade in saint paul? Honestly st paul is like a foreign country to me. I know from highland to university as deep as snelling but anything that isn't in that area is uncharted territory basically.
You know, there is a flip side of this. From what I've heard, my county (onslow) had the highest percent of people voting for the amendment of the whole state. It seems like most of the churches in our area had signs out supporting it, and were giving out signs to their parishioners. This was a huge issue here, there were alot of churches with messages about marriage on their signs on sunday before election (I know this because I was putting out Ron Paul signs at voting locations and half the polls are at churches). Many of them were having special amendment 1 services on sunday morning.
In the interest of full disclosure, I will tell you where I'm coming from. I'm a Christian. I try to follow the Bible for life guidance. This is a task that I am no where close to accomplishing, but when when you read the accounts of Jesus, one particular thing stands out. When asked which commandment was the most important, he named two, Love God, and love your neighbor AS YOURSELF (or as you love yourself). There is no place for hate in the teachings of Christ.
With that said, why are churches looking to the government to define marriage for them? I mean, If a church or pastor doesn't want to marry or recognize a marriage, that is their prerogative in a free society. As far as the government business and the courts are concerned, they should deal in contracts period! Whether those people are engaged in sexual activity is beside the point.
These churches need to realize that they are not doing well getting their point across by these heavy handed uses of state force! Again, I'm just not sure what they are afraid of?
Hipster Town has a better arcade.
